Everyone was talking Llangollen today. There had been lots of conferring yesterday evening and it appeared that nearly every XC pilot in the north of England was going to be in attendance. As one person put it when they arrived on site: “It’s like a comp!”. Despite the forecast wind, Llangollen was completely dead and the sky didn’t look too promising. We waited around for things to improve, when out of nowhere the wind started gusting, just as Jean-Luc had predicted. Lots of people lobbed off, but it didn’t look very much fun in the air. Kai and a local pilot made an early dash over the back, but it was a long hard slog for all the subsequent lot to get over the back. Most landed at about 25 – 30km.

We decided to switch sites to get a better chance. Reports from Sarn and Corndon had it sounding not very good, so we looked at Long Mountain on the way. We were stalked round the field by some curious young cattle and spent ages guarding our gear from cow slobber. David McK launched first, but didn’t get very high. Wayne and Frank were off next, but it looked rough. This was confirmed when Frank shouted down “It’s horrible!”.

The wind just steadily dropped, so most of us elected to save ourselves the £5 fee and Geoff, Michaela, Wayne and I went off to the pub instead.

See photos of today.

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